Re: video screening help!

From: Robert Schaller (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 06:42:07 PST


Does it need to be compiled to tape? Why not digitize it all to QT files,
and play them all off a computer? There is software out there that can put
together a show order and play the files successively as if they were a
single timeline (but I confess I don't know the title at the moment --
anyone?), so that then the files all play at whatever resolution you have,
either in NTSC or PAL, and nothing ever needs to be converted. You'll just
need a portable harddrive to put them all on, and you can play them from a
laptop.

Seems like a better solution. I agree with Pip that video is needlessly
cumbersome, but tape is the worst part. I think the best answer is not to
use it if you don't have to.

On 3/6/09 2:57 AM, "Pip Chodorov" <email suppressed> wrote:

> Beth,
>
> A lab can do this for you, and it's hard to reply without knowing
> what equipment you have.
> The rule of thumb is to start with the highest quality source
> materials, high quality DV tapes or noncompressed files. Avoid DVDs
> because they are wickedly compressed with MPEG2. PAL is higher
> quality than NTSC but the transcoding question will be determined by
> the format you need for the screening. You can transcode at home in a
> computer: for example you can digitize the PAL video into Final Cut
> onto a PAL timeline, then open a new timeline in NTSC and copy it in.
> Then output that back onto an NTSC camera or deck. The quality will
> be less good than if you transcode in a postproduction house with
> hardware converters.
>
> So technically, you could create a broadcast quality edit of your
> whole screening, all the shorts in sequence, in Final Cut and output
> the whole thing onto one tape.
>
> Too bad video is so complicated. You could do the same on film with
> just scissors and tape!
>
>
>
> At 21:13 -0600 5/03/09, Beth Capper wrote:
>> I am putting together a screening of shorts and need some tech help.
>> I need to compile all the films onto Mini DV from either QT files or
>> multiple Mini DVs. Some of the Mini DV's are in PAL and some are
>> NTSC... do I need to convert the PAL to NTSC and if so, how do I do
>> this? Also, is it possible to take films from DVD and put them onto
>> Mini DV, and if so, does this greatly diminish the quality?
>
>
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